Line #28 Recap/Daredevil2015S1E13Daredevil


1	'''"Daredevil"''' is the thirteenth episode and first SeasonFinale of ''[[{{Series/Daredevil2015}} Marvel's Daredevil]]''.
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3	As Fisk's list of allies -- and his patience -- grows thin, Matt, Foggy and Karen discover a possible weak link in the operation.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* AbandonedArea: Hoffman is being guarded in a derelict concert hall.
8	* AndTheAdventureContinues: The episode ends with Daredevil standing on a rooftop, hearing a woman scream and leaping into action.
9	* AnswerCut: As Brett takes custody of Fisk and lets Matt go, he asks Matt what name he should put in his police report. Cut to our heroes looking at a newspaper article on Daredevil.
10	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Fisk asks if Matt thinks "one man in a silly little costume" can really make a difference in the world. He apparently didn't collect any Captain America trading cards. In all seriousness, Fisk gained his foothold in Hell's Kitchen in part because of the damage from the Chitauri invasion. From his perspective, while heroes might save the world, they haven't done anything about crime, corruption, greed, poverty, and urban decay. That is... until now.
11	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Fisk describes a Samaritan as simply someone who is "from Samaria." This is technically correct, but fails to prove the lesson of the parable due to lacking a lot of context about Samaria's history. "Samaritans" were a separate branch of Judaism, or more accurately of the Israelite religion, dating back from the split between the Kingdom of Judah and the Kingdom of Israel, and the enmity between them was quite bitter. The original point of "The ''Good'' Samaritan" (emphasis added) was that a Samarian, who Jewish audiences would have thought the ''least'' likely to be kind to a Jew, was being nicer to the hurt man than the people of his own nation. Then again, Fisk admits to not knowing much about religion.
12	* BaitAndSwitchComment: While talking with Matt at the office, Karen looks like she's about to tell Matt that she killed Wesley, but then switches to instead say she fears Fisk will learn about her having been with Ben at the nursing home. It happens again at the end of the episode when Matt tells her that he's sensed something different about her.
13	* BattleDiscretionShot: Hoffman closes his eyes as his fellow corrupt police prepare to shoot him. He cringes as a volley of shots ring out, then opens his eyes to see Matt taking down the last of them.
14	* BittersweetEnding: Fisk is arrested, his empire brought down, and the city is safe. But, as Karen pointed out, it won't undo the damage Fisk has done, bring back the good people killed, or erase the things they had to go through at this point.
15	* {{Bookends}}: The first and last episode of the season both end with a child screaming for help and the Daredevil rushing off to provide it.
16	* BulletproofVest: Matt gets a new armored suit from Melvin Potter. Melvin says that the "process" isn't complete, though, and that only the black portions of the suit will give the most protection and that the red portions (most of the suit) will only stop a knife coming in at certain angles.
17	* CallBack: A few, what with this being the season finale.
18	** With Karen freaking out and fearing Fisk will find out that she killed Wesley, Matt has to remind her [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing what he promised her about keeping her safe]].
19	** Fisk finds himself in a prison cell, looking at a roughly painted wall, [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E8ShadowsInTheGlass like the wall his father told him to stare at to "become a man"]].
20	** Matt ends the season standing on a rooftop, and hears a child screaming for help, like the end of the first episode.
21	* [[ComicBookMoviesDontuseCodenames Comic-Book Shows Don't Use Codenames]]: Finally averted at the close of the episode, as the media christen Matt's new red suited persona as "Daredevil". Karen says it seems a bit much, but grows on you, which Matt seems to agree with.
22	* ChekhovsGunman:
23	** Hoffman is revealed to be a bargaining chip for Owlsley to leverage Fisk, on account of the things that Hoffman knows about Fisk's enterprise. Tracking him down forms the crux of the first part of the episode.
24	** Karen is furious that Ellison had the gall to turn up at Ben's funeral after having betrayed him to his death. But notice that Caldwell is standing next to Ellison, looking upset as she places flowers on his grave. On a rewatch of the previous episode, there was a [[TraitorShot quick shot of Caldwell]] listening in on Ben and Ellison arguing, around when Ben mentioned speaking to Fisk's mother. She's arrested as Fisk's inside man later in the episode.
25	* CopKiller: Multiple FBI agents and NYPD cops are gunned down by the paramilitary team that are hired to free Fisk from the prison van after he is arrested.
26	* DirtyCop:
27	** Officer Corbin is sent to kill Hoffman [[LeaveNoWitnesses and anyone else with him.]]
28	** One of the FBI SWAT cops is on Fisk's payroll and kills the other cop inside their armored van to break Fisk out of custody.
29	* ExpositionCut: Fisk starts to explain his exit strategy to Vanessa, cut to the cops closing in in slow motion, cut back to him asking if she understands everything he just told her.
30	* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Take a closer look at the FBI SWAT agents who guard Fisk in the van as he tells the Samaritan story. One clean-shaven cop has his gun pointed away from anything. The other one (with the stubble) has his gun pointed vaguely toward the first guy[[note]]Visually. It's actually to the guy's side.[[/note]], with his finger near the trigger. He also says the clean agent should let Fisk talk, and seems oddly calm as a firefight erupts outside, unlike his buddy. When the clean agent gets ready to fight and warns the enemies[[note]]who don't seem concerned about the armed cops in the van at all[[/note]] outside to back off, he has his gun pointed at Stubble.[[note]]Visually. It's actually to the stubbled agent's side[[/note]] Then [[TheMole the dirty agent shoots his partner in the head]]. For bonus points, this is literally seconds after the honest agent says "[[AccidentalTruth I don't know who you are]]".
31	* HeelRealization: After being exposed and arrested, Fisk recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan and realizes that he's not the Samaritan who selflessly helped the wounded traveler, or the priest or the Levite that both ignored him, or even the "men of ill intent" who wounded him in the first place, but rather the ill intent itself that made those men want to attack the traveller at all.
32	* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: As Leland passes some ledgers over to Fisk, Fisk notices that Leland's hands are trembling. Leland tries to pass this off as shivering due to the cold, only for Fisk to point out that [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat he's also sweating profusely]].
33	* HopeSpot: Fisk and his cronies are arrested by the FBI and everyone's celebrating... halfway through the episode. Then the other shoe drops.
34	* IfICantHaveYou: Fisk decides that if he can't save NYC from crime and corruption, then he'll ''be'' the crime and corruption and let it drown in its filth.
35	* IfIDoNotReturn:
36	** After he's been rescued, Fisk calls Vanessa, who is waiting by a helicopter, telling her to leave if he doesn't arrive. When she refuses, he assures her that if he doesn't arrive, [[IWillFindYou it will only be a temporary inconvenience]].
37	** Leland reveals to Fisk that he's had Hoffman in protective custody since he vanished, and if Leland doesn't report in at regular intervals, Hoffman will go to the FBI and testify about everything he's done for Fisk. Fisk considers this...then throws Leland down an elevator shaft and sends out his corrupt cops to find Hoffman anyways.
38	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Matt gets some upgraded batons that finally let him showcase this skill. And unlike [[Characters/MCUCaptainAmerica Captain America]], he doesn't have a magnetic gauntlet to pull the batons back to his grip. It's all him.
39	* ImprovisedWeapon: Fisk uses a piece of rebar to attack Matt as they fight in the alleyway.
40	* InJoke: "Nelson & Murdock: [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E10NelsonVMurdock Avocados at Law]]." Karen is rightfully confused.
41	* IronicEcho:
42	** [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E6Condemned Fisk told Matt over Officer Sullivan's radio]] that "Not everyone deserves a happy ending". After intercepting Fisk's truck:
43	--->'''Matt Murdock:''' You were right, what you told me over the radio that night. Not everyone deserves a happy ending.
44	** [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E9SpeakOfTheDevil As Matt fought Fisk for the first time]], Fisk responded to Matt's death threat with the line: "[[BringIt Take your shot.]]" Now the shoe's on the other foot:
45	--->'''Wilson Fisk:''' YOU TOOK EVERYTHING! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!\
46	'''Matt Murdock:''' Take your shot.
47	* LikeADaughterToMe: Karen approaches Ben's wife at the funeral and reveals her guilt at having pressured Ben into writing the story that got him killed. She isn't having it, saying that no-one ever forced Ben to write a story, and he regarded Karen as the daughter they never had specifically because she never gave up.
48	* MoodDissonance: The arrest montage is scored to ''Nessun Dorma''.
49	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As Caldwell is taken into custody, Ellison can only lower his head in guilt over the realization that while Ben was wrong about him being the mole, he was right to suspect that there was a traitor in the office.
50	* MythologyGag:
51	** The artist's rendering of Daredevil in full costume on the front page of the paper is almost identical to the cover art of [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Daredevil_Vol_2_60 Daredevil #60]].
52	** Fisk in his jail cell at the close of the episode is wearing an all white prison uniform (having worn black or grey all season), calling to mind his iconic white suit from the comics, and soon after he accepted his place as a villain, not a savior, no less.
53	* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Downplayed when Matt and Foggy acknowledge they can't go back to the way things were between them, but are willing to move on together.
54	* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Fisk notices Leland sweating profusely and deduces that Leland is double-crossing him.
55	* ProperlyParanoid: Ben took out an insurance policy years ago, knowing he was taking huge risks going after mafiosi and corrupt politicians. {{Avert\|ed Trope}}s WhatHappenedToTheMouse, we know his wife is going to be taken care of.
56	* RedHerring: Turns out Ellison is ''not'' Fisk's mole at the paper. It's Caldwell, his secretary.
57	* RevengeBeforeReason: Fisk kills Owlsley for poisoning Vanessa, opening the possibility of Hoffman turning state's evidence against him. He almost manages to get Hoffman anyway, but by that point it was damage control.
58	* SecretSecretKeeper: Turns out Foggy has known about Matt frequenting Fogwell's Gym for all this time, but just didn't know what Matt's connection to the place was beyond it being where his dad trained.
59	-->'''Matt Murdock:''' How'd you know I was here?\
60	'''Foggy Nelson:''' Known about your outlet for a while. I didn't say anything because I thought it had something to do with your dad. Now I know better. Thought you'd be out punching people in the head, or whatever you do.
61	* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Leland says the poisoning at the benefit was targeted at Vanessa, with the other deaths only to obscure this fact.
62	* ShipTease: Foggy leaves to help Marci find a new job, with the suggestion that they might be hooking up on a more permanent basis. There's then a close up shot of [[HoldingHands Karen taking Matt's hand]] as they enter Nelson & Murdock.
63	* ShoutOut: The sequence of Fisk's breakout and escape involving trucks, ambushes and mercenaries/corrupt cops disguised as SWAT are more than a little reminiscent of the Joker's capture in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
64	** Similarly, Fisk's halfway-through beat-down of Matt (involving carrying him aloft and bringing him down) is way too reminiscent of Bane's [[{{Comicbook/Knightfall}} "breaking of the Bat"]], as well as its subsequent adaptation in ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', to be coincidental.
65	** Furthermore, Fisk's realization that he is the "ill intent" comes across very much like [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winfield's]] realization that he is the "tyranny of evil men."
66	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The police and FBI are prepared to deal with a response from random criminals, even well-organized criminals, they are ''not'' prepared for a military assault by a high-value black ops team.
67	* TaserTagWeakness: Averted; Fisk screams in agony when Leland tries to zap him with his taser, but it only fuels his rage.
68	* ThenLetMeBeEvil: After Fisk's HeelRealization above, he immediately decides that he's just fine with being a bad guy, because that's what Hell's Kitchen deserves after (from his perspective) it has actively resisted all of his attempts to "save" it.
69	* TitleDrop: Matt's masked alter ego is christened "Daredevil" by the media, which is both the title of the episode and the show.
70	* TrueCompanions: The team of Nelson, Murdock & Page are reunited, and take open pleasure in working together again.
71	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: No one seems to notice that Hoffman is completely covered in blood when he walks into the station.
72	* VillainousBreakdown: Fisk abandons all pretense at being calm and affable when Daredevil stops his escape plan:
73	-->'''Wilson Fisk:''' I wanted to make this city something better than it is, something beautiful. You took that away from me! You took ''everything!'' '''I'M GONNA KILL YOU!'''\
74	'''Matt Murdock:''' [[BringIt Take your shot.]]\
75	'''Wilson Fisk:''' This city doesn't ''deserve'' a better tomorrow! It deserves to drown in its filth! It deserves people like my father! People like you!
76	* WithThisRing: Fisk hands an engagement ring to Vanessa just as they're dragged apart by FBI agents arresting him. When Vanessa gets the news that Fisk has been stopped from reaching her, [[ActOfTrueLove Vanessa places the ring on her finger]] before leaving on the helicopter.
77	* WrongGenreSavvy: Leland thinks he's dealing with a criminal organization and that being able to threaten to deprive Fisk of all of his money will be enough to protect him. Instead he's in a superhero story with an AxCrazy berserker.
78	* YouExclamation:
79	** Fisk on seeing Daredevil and realizing that he's the Masked Man in Black.
80	** Brett's reaction upon pulling into the alley and seeing Matt standing over an unconscious Fisk.

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